...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

...Benjamin R. Davies Abstract The first two books of J. M. Coetzee's recent trilogy, The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), are extremely strange. Just when “the Australian fiction,” following the works set in South Africa and various international locations, was thought...

...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...

...Carrol Clarkson MARAIS MIKE , Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee ( Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 ), pp. 249 , cloth, $72.00 . HAYES PATRICK , J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett ( Oxford : Oxford UP...

...DEREK ATTRIDGE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Works Cited Adorno , Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory . Eds. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997 . Attridge , Derek . “Expecting the Unexpected in Coetzee’s Master...

...DAVID ATTWELL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Attridge , Derek. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event . Scottsville: U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2005 . Boym , Svetlana . “Poetics and Politics of Estrangement: Victor Shklovsky and Hannah...

...Benjamin H. Ogden One of the most pressing problems posed by J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is that of the novel as a genre: what it is and is not, how readers “create” texts and their meanings, how literary tradition and genre typologies are constructed and passed down, the plasticity...

... of the literary in our globalized, multimedia present? These questions also happen to lie at the heart of J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007). As I argue in this essay, this is not just because it is a challengingly singular literary act, which demands that we rethink some of our guiding assumptions about...

...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man considers “care” in contemporary liberal-capitalist societies, including the ostensibly frivolous care of and care for literature. In contrast to grander affects and occupations, care often seems to be “just care,” as if it fails to live up...

...Derek Attridge Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 The trajectory of J. M. Coetzee's career as a novelist—some would say the foremost novelist writing in English over the past forty years—is not a straightforward one. Beginning with two works uncompromisingly in the modernist tradition...

... . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe . This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration...

...Victoria Googasian Abstract J. M. Coetzee's late fictions display a recurrent fascination with attitudes of faith and belief. This preoccupation has been read sometimes as an effort to reinvigorate the novel's engagement with materiality and embodied life, other times as an elegy to the waning...

...David Attwell CLARKSON CARROL , J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 ), pp. 224 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Fiction and the Linguistic Turn CARROL CLARKSON, J. M. Coetzee...

..., of the “ wrong at the heart of a fictional differend” (396; emphasis added). In 1973, J. M. Coetzee began drafting a novel that he later abandoned, titled “The Burning of the Books.” “Fiction,” he wrote in his notes toward that work, “being a serious affair, cannot accept pre-requisites like (1) a desire...

...Madigan Haley This essay approaches the global as an ethos emergent within contemporary fiction, taking J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) as its primary example. Recent accounts of global or world literature have generally considered these solely as spheres of circulation, while dominant accounts...

... clearly the book's intent to unmoor us from any complacency in regard to dignity, a concept that seems almost impervious to critique. The epigraph, from J. M. Coetzee's Giving Offense , sets up a causal chain only to undermine it by bringing to question the foundations of our idea of dignity...

...Timothy Wright Graham Lucy Valerie , State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $58.50 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Coetzee J. M. Doubling the Point: Essays...

... of singular works by four writers: J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki. Palumbo-Liu notes with dismay Larry Summers's heinous suggestion in a 1991 World Bank memo that because first-world inhabitants have a far longer life expectancy than their third-world counterparts, the former...

... of Letters . Trans. M. B. DeBevoise Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005 . Coetzee , J. M. Deng dai ye man ren . [Chinese translation of Waiting for the Barbarians] Trans. Zhenjia Cheng. Taibei Shi: Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si, 2002 . Coetzee , J. M. Deng dai ye man ren...

...Nathaniel Conroy Pecora Vincent , Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee ( Notre Dame : U of Notre Dame P , 2015 ), pp. 232, Paper, $30.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Vincent Pecora's Secularization without End offers a fascinating...